Red Shuttleworth
Doc Holliday's Skeleton...

Doc Holliday's Skeleton Takes a Saint Patrick's Day Walk, Leadville, Colorado, 1887

Red Shuttleworth

First published by True West magazine in its online edition, this not-so-droll poem follows Doc Holliday, terminally, seriously ill with tuberculosis, on his rounds through Leadville, Colorado, in 1887. Doc is in search of the usual: a winning hand, a pretty lady, a respite from his "consumption." The odds are stacked against Doc, but he could care less.

Selected Works

Poetry
The mad life, in poetry, of Old West outlaw Johnny Ringo.
Roadside Attractions, Roadside Attractions is the winner of the 2011 Spur Award for Best Poem from Western Writers of America, is an extended meditation, using the ghazal poetry form, on driving the West.
We Drove All Night is a collection of Red Shuttleworth's latest poetry published in magazines.
This slim book of poems collects the best of Red Shuttleworth’s recent literary journal publications.
The poems in Spur Award winning Western Settings explore the history and life of the American West.
The bio-sketch poems of Brief Lives are a poignant look at the 20th century American West
Doc Holliday enjoys one of his last adventures
Drama
The nature of the Old and the New West is reflected in this anthology edited by Red Shuttleworth

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